PAYG mobile broadband

Andyhhh

Ive got a month left on a Three, £15/mth USB dongle. I rarely use it so cant justify the £15 mth anymore as it the 12mths contract is up in May, but I would like to have it available for occasional use/backup.

Ive had a look in the normal places and cant seem to find a true pay as you go deal, ie no monthly fee - just pay for the data when I do use it. The three deal is buy data, but it expires within 3 months I think

Does anyone have any idea on what my options are please?

devizes18193

can you not just put on a new pay as you go simm

Shiver

Hi

I'm currently looking for Mobile Broadband for occasional use. Ideally, like you I'd like a deal where you buy a block of throughput and use it as you want but so far I cannot find anything.

As you say, the Three PAYG deals are a bit restrictive: £10 1gig/30 days, £15 3gig/30 days & £25 7gig/30 days.

The O2 PAYG offers: £2 500meg/1 day, £7.50 1gig/7days & £15 3gig/30 days. According to Quidco, if you sign up through their site, you get £40 cashback once you've put £15 credit on the card. With that deal, you'd get the dongle and £15 credit for about £5 with the cashback.

Up to now, that's the way I'm going unless I find anything better, if I do find anything, I'll post here.

Cheers

Shiver

And there's more!

Vodafone: £39 for dongle & 1gig, data last for ever and can be topped up at £15 a gig (a bit steep maybe).

T-Mobile: £30 for the dongle and £2 for 3gig/1 day.

You'll have to look at the respective sites yourself because I am not allowed to post links here.:rolleyes:

Shiver

The Vodafone TopUp and Go deal at £15 for 1 gig is looking to be better than it first appeared here.

I've measured the throughput for several typical internet session and rather surprisingly the data shifted was at the most 40meg a session. This would probably be as much as I'd need in a day when away from home. On that basis, using this deal would cost me 60p a session/day. So typically a £15 topup would give me about 25 separate days access over an open-ended period.

Hope this helps someone.

Sagz_2

My Orange mobile broadband contract is up in a couple of months and I was looking for the chepest option for occasional use so thanks for doing all the leg-work Shiver xx

jebervic

Andyhhh wrote: »

Ive got a month left on a Three, £15/mth USB dongle. I rarely use it so cant justify the £15 mth anymore as it the 12mths contract is up in May, but I would like to have it available for occasional use/backup.

Ive had a look in the normal places and cant seem to find a true pay as you go deal, ie no monthly fee - just pay for the data when I do use it. The three deal is buy data, but it expires within 3 months I think

Does anyone have any idea on what my options are please?

If you have a 3 mobile contract phone, you can get the internet max add on for £5 a month, pop the sim into your dongle and bobs your uncle.

macman

3 data top up expires in 30 days. Vodafone top up lasts forever. So for your uses Voda has to be best, although the data charges are higher. Wish I'd known that before I bought my 2 PAYG dongle.

clio

Are vodafone's HSPDA modems or just 3G. Also is that right about the expire part of it, 3 snatch away what you don't use. Next week I'll loose 1 gig coz of not using it. Shame is that. Whats there speed like ?? The best i've had out of 3 is 1.3 Meg.

clio

If i buy a Vodafone usb modem will 3 unregister my sim that i got with there usb modem if they do i can sell it on with sim included as i won't need 2 on the go.

ScottNicholson

Hi all,

I have just bought the T-Mobile PAYG 'Pay Daily' dongle from T-Mobile's website.

It's basically £2/day, or you can buy 'bundles' at £10 for a 7-day pass or £20 for a 30-day pass. Regardless of this, their fair use policy of 3GB/month still applies, even though it is PAYG.

I live within greater London and am very impressed with the reception - pages load quickly and I seem to be getting an average of around 500Kb/s which, although not lightning fast, is perfectly good for what I need.

The dongle costs just under £30 from the T-Mobile website but I went via Quidco and, although Quidco isn't listing any offers on this product, a new entry has appeared tracking £20 so it looks like I'm gonna get the dongle for a tenner.

All in all, very impressed.

Hope that info may help.